RE: single-question poll - font vendors and browser devs

On Thursday, July 02, 2009 3:24 PM Jonathan Kew wrote:
> 
> It seems to me that there's a chance for real progress here, though
> it's a difficult process at times. If you all will indulge me, I'd
> like to ask the font vendors represented here to answer, to the best
> of their current knowledge, one straightforward question. Similarly, I
> have one question for the browser implementers.
> 
> These are intended to be simple yes/no questions; please refrain from
> complex answers hedged with "if's" and "but's". Let's save the finer
> details for separate discussion, once it's clear whether we have some
> common ground to stand on while we discuss them!
> 
> - - - - -
> 
> (A) FONT VENDORS:
> 
> If there is a W3C recommendation for web fonts that specifies
> 
> * internal compression of the font data (presumably based on MTX or
> ZOT ideas, but details TBD), and
> 
> * same-origin checking, with CORS to allow controlled relaxation of
> restrictions, similar to how Firefox 3.5 deals with TTF/OTF fonts,
> 
> would you be willing to license your fonts for use in accordance with
> such a standard?
> 

Yes, I believe I can convince my company to offer licenses for web use
in accordance with W3C Recommendation.

Cheers,
Vladimir

> - - - - -
> 
> (B) BROWSER DEVELOPERS:
> 
> If there is a W3C recommendation for web fonts that specifies
> 
> * internal compression of the font data (presumably based on MTX or
> ZOT ideas, but details TBD), and
> 
> * same-origin checking, with CORS to allow controlled relaxation of
> restrictions, similar to how Firefox 3.5 deals with TTF/OTF fonts,
> 
> and if
> 
> * several major font vendors will commit to license their fonts for
> use under these conditions, and
> 
> * neither patent/licensing issues nor sheer complexity of
> implementation present serious obstacles,
> 
> would you be willing to support such a standard in your browser?
> 
> - - - - -
> 
> I realize there are other stakeholders besides these two groups, such
> as the authors who are potential users of any such standard. By
> addressing these two specific groups, I am not intending to imply that
> others are unimportant, it's just that these are the questions I'm
> particularly interested to hear direct answers to at this point.
> 
> If people prefer to respond to me privately rather than on-list, to
> reduce the risk of spawning yet another thread that ends up repeating
> much of the same rhetoric, that would be fine; I would then summarize
> responses once it seems that everyone who intends to reply has done
> so. Or if you want to reply publicly, that's fine too of course. And
> if you don't speak for your company in any formal sense, that's OK,
> I'd still appreciate hearing where you think your company might stand.
> 
> Of course, some people have already made statements on the list that
> make it pretty clear what their answers will be, but I'd like to hear
> from as wide a range as possible.
> 
> Jonathan
>

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